Rather than the XS36 that the parent links, I'd suggest one of Shuttle's DS87s. It can drive three displays, and I can confirm that they a pretty robust hardware.
They're cheaper than an NUC, but more useful than a RPi.
The thing is, every idea goes through at least the first phase, and often the second as well. It's pretty hard to tell what's a good idea or not until phase three.
I'm not sure about the US, but in the UK it's dark and windless for approximately 10% of the year.
Also, peak generating times don't always coincide with peak usage, so energy storage is necessary to even out the supply. And yes, while nuke plants can't spin up quickly enough to cover unexpected loads, they can be adjusted to fit expected loads (eg, at night to cover solar).
To be fair, a small company's server room, isn't really a datacenter by most people's use of the word, but it is true that in the vast majority of businesses there's no money for redundant everything. Most small company's are lucky if they can afford two of anything.
If anyone knows of a good way to get OneDrive syncing working on linux, I for one would be super happy.
All the solutions that I've found so far are, basically, crap.
"Why don't you use Dropbox/Ubuntu One/Rsync etc?" Because the customer wants to use OneDrive.
I used to work for a company that sold large printers and vinyl cutters, mainly to sign makers and I can confirm that sign makers are particularly cheap when it comes to upgrading their tools. I'm all for "if it ain't broke...", but when it is broke, and every print run takes twice as long because your Windows 98 box takes ten minutes to reboot, and another five to load the required program and then has a 50% chance of crashing, that right there is a good time to buy a new computer.
On the other hand, the specialised software for these printers was so behind the times it still wouldn't support a 64 bit OS a couple of years ago, which is a slight problem when you're dealing with image files which can quite happily eat all 4GB of addressable RAM, so maybe they weren't missing out on much.
Also, the Amiga had the best case handling in a file system:
Say you have a file called File1 (no need for an extension). You could access the file with any capitalisation you like, file1, FILE1 File1, FiLe1 or whatever takes your fancy.
However, if you were mad, you could also have two files in the same directory names FILE1 and file1 (or any other set of characters).
It had/has the benefits of a case sensitive filesystem, with the ease of use of a case-insensitive one.
Now, if someone could just explain to me why case sensitivity is important in a file system...
No, it uses a very early form of battery. However, no one is quite sure exactly how it was made. Each ring of the bell only takes a tiny amount of power, so it should be going for a good long while yet.
I think I switched to Deluge about five years ago. It was originally started as an open source Torrent clone, and, well, it's now basically an open source clone of Torrent as it was then. Mission successful I guess.
"modern desktop PC" is a slight exaggeration as the newest CPU they offer is ten years old, and buying a whole new PC just to copy data off an old one is a heavyweight solution at best.
Which bowser and which applications? Are you sure you're not counting cache as used RAM?
I'm currently on a Win7 machine, with 8Gb of RAM, running firefox, thunderbird and two VMs (1GB of RAM each) and a bunch of other stuff and I'm just over 4GB used.
It's not just about skimming, a card with just a mag-stripe is very easy to clone (you can do it with a strip of video tape). So when credit card details are stolen anywhere in the world, they're sent to the US to be turned into cloned cards so the money can be extracted, and then laundered and sent back to the country of origin.
My card provider blocks all US transactions unless I ring them up and tell them I'm going on holiday to America.
For me the link was right at the start of a new line and not very noticeable, I didn't see it until after I'd read the article (and googled W^X myself).
I'm not sure what the post would have lost if they'd included a short explanation ("W^X (memory can be Writeable OR Executable)").
Actually, their thrust vectoring is a new system I've never seen before, which creates shock waves in the exhaust inside the nozzle which deflects the exhaust. They claim it's lighter than other control methods. You can see it working in the video in TFA.
I'm not sure how well their method will work, but it's always interesting to see a new idea.
I think the point of the article is to plant new forests (or rather replant the ones that were there before humans arrived). You're right that an already existing forest is carbon neutral, adding a 'new' tree will reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (and the amount of water, and a bunch of nutrients and stuff).
Actually, one of the things that was likely to limit the life of the lander, (if it had landed where it was supposed to), was heat build up. Where it has landed up now is cooler, and so the lander might last for longer.
It's already spent ten years in open space, low temperatures aren't much of a problem.
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You can often power those things using PoE as well, which reduces the cables by one.
They're cheaper than an NUC, but more useful than a RPi.
The thing is, every idea goes through at least the first phase, and often the second as well. It's pretty hard to tell what's a good idea or not until phase three.
I'm not sure about the US, but in the UK it's dark and windless for approximately 10% of the year.
Also, peak generating times don't always coincide with peak usage, so energy storage is necessary to even out the supply. And yes, while nuke plants can't spin up quickly enough to cover unexpected loads, they can be adjusted to fit expected loads (eg, at night to cover solar).
To be fair, a small company's server room, isn't really a datacenter by most people's use of the word, but it is true that in the vast majority of businesses there's no money for redundant everything. Most small company's are lucky if they can afford two of anything.
All the solutions that I've found so far are, basically, crap.
"Why don't you use Dropbox/Ubuntu One/Rsync etc?" Because the customer wants to use OneDrive.
I used to work for a company that sold large printers and vinyl cutters, mainly to sign makers and I can confirm that sign makers are particularly cheap when it comes to upgrading their tools. I'm all for "if it ain't broke...", but when it is broke, and every print run takes twice as long because your Windows 98 box takes ten minutes to reboot, and another five to load the required program and then has a 50% chance of crashing, that right there is a good time to buy a new computer.
On the other hand, the specialised software for these printers was so behind the times it still wouldn't support a 64 bit OS a couple of years ago, which is a slight problem when you're dealing with image files which can quite happily eat all 4GB of addressable RAM, so maybe they weren't missing out on much.
Say you have a file called File1 (no need for an extension). You could access the file with any capitalisation you like, file1, FILE1 File1, FiLe1 or whatever takes your fancy.
However, if you were mad, you could also have two files in the same directory names FILE1 and file1 (or any other set of characters).
It had/has the benefits of a case sensitive filesystem, with the ease of use of a case-insensitive one.
Now, if someone could just explain to me why case sensitivity is important in a file system...
Either way, you're getting very unusual problems.
And why save IE6? It was crap when it came out, and it's no better now.
No, it uses a very early form of battery. However, no one is quite sure exactly how it was made. Each ring of the bell only takes a tiny amount of power, so it should be going for a good long while yet.
ABP works so well that I didn't realise for quite a while that they'd introduced advert videos until I went round a friend's house.
Wait, you live in a country where the politicians actually listen to the people? Where do you live?
I think I switched to Deluge about five years ago. It was originally started as an open source Torrent clone, and, well, it's now basically an open source clone of Torrent as it was then. Mission successful I guess.
I'm not sure if this is genius or insanity.
"modern desktop PC" is a slight exaggeration as the newest CPU they offer is ten years old, and buying a whole new PC just to copy data off an old one is a heavyweight solution at best.
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It's rare that anyone gets arrested for SWATing, that why this is news.
I'm currently on a Win7 machine, with 8Gb of RAM, running firefox, thunderbird and two VMs (1GB of RAM each) and a bunch of other stuff and I'm just over 4GB used.
My card provider blocks all US transactions unless I ring them up and tell them I'm going on holiday to America.
That's exactly what I'd say to a journalist to make it less likely that the police take an interest in what I'm doing.
I'm not sure what the post would have lost if they'd included a short explanation ("W^X (memory can be Writeable OR Executable)").
I'm not sure how well their method will work, but it's always interesting to see a new idea.
Here's a guide to how this is done professionally.
I think the point of the article is to plant new forests (or rather replant the ones that were there before humans arrived). You're right that an already existing forest is carbon neutral, adding a 'new' tree will reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (and the amount of water, and a bunch of nutrients and stuff).
It's already spent ten years in open space, low temperatures aren't much of a problem.